I know it's ugly turning on the news,
there's people fighting over point of views.
Sometimes it's like there's nothing left to lose,
and I don't know what to do.
But I know it's better with you.
To everyone around him, Zed was the strong one. He was the one you could always count to find with a smile on his face. Even during the rougher days, he was the one there to keep everyone going.
So he could never show anyone when he was the one finding it hard to carry on.
Being zombie wasn't easy, well, it had never been easy but he found it particular hard right now. Despite he had never been human, being born as a zombie, he could still imagine it. How much easier everything would be. Sure the humans had worked to help them by making them less of a danger, mostly for themselves though, they still refused to take the walls down. Zombies had been given back as much of a life as the humans could give them by providing them with the Z-Bands, and then taken away their rights for a life to run along. Yes they had roofs over their heads, a bed to sleep on, and food on the table. But they also had to wear clothes similar to what one would wear in prison, a curfew and a very harsh limited access to anywhere outside zombie town.
Even inviting them into their schools, wasn't as exciting as he had hoped. Standing there with his friends and the human kids looking at them with disgust, he wanted to go home. He forced it aside, clapped his friends on their backs and encouraged them on, a smile as real as he could muster on his face. "Come on guys, no more classes in dingy basements!"
He was wrong.
I was a mess when you came along,
When there was nothing left,
you showed me the best.
I'm still a mess but,
you hold on.
Don't know just why you do,
but I know I'm better with you.
He had tried to forget about her. The one human who hadn't looked at him like a freak. She had smiled at him, and it was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. And then had run into her again.
Sure she had punched him when the lights had turned on and discovered he was a zombie.
But she apologised. And she had somewhat complimented him too.
He had never been this close to a human before, only seen them from afar behind a secured fence. She was beautiful. She had long silky blonde hair, he had a desire to run his fingers through it, just to feel if it was as soft as it looked. She was a lot shorter than him, but he didn't mind that one bit. The blue dress she wore hugged her perfectly and he had to mentally force himself to stop looking at her curves.
He didn't dare hope too much, but maybe there could be something there. Not that it would ever be allowed, a human and a zombie. But the way she looked at him, made him feel something he had never felt before. He quite liked it.
And then she had been yanked away.
He had never really paid much attention to girls, not really bothering for flings as most of his mates had going on. He wanted something real, something special. He wanted that feeling.
And when that feeling finally hit, it had been from a human. He might as well deem it impossible already but he wanted to hope for something else than impossible.
For every life there is a silent cry,
For every day there is a darker night.
Sometimes this life doesn't threat us right,
and I don't know what to do.
But I know I'm better with you.
Maybe she wasn't so much different anyway. Maybe it had only been fake, maybe it had been a joke.
He had never felt more disappointed when he had found her hiding outside his house, in her cheerleading uniform and one of her friends. It wasn't that she was there, he felt a spark of excitement about seeing her, but it had quickly died down when he spotted the tray of extra large eggs in her hand. Eliza had been right when she had told him humans was bad, but cheerleaders was monsters. Not that much cheer about them really, and what there was, wasn't real. They only cheered for what they deemed to fit in. He didn't fit in.
He hated having let his hopes up, he hated himself for thinking the girl, Addison, actually had liked him. He hated himself for liking her.
But then she had turned it around again, she had apologised, again. She had snuck down to their dingy classroom in the basement to apologise to him. She had set that spark of again, she had made him feel that something again.
Could she possibly like him? Even if just a little bit?
He dared hope just a little.
I was a wreck when you came along.
When there was nothing left,
you showed me the best.
I'm still a mess but you hold on,
don't know just why you do.
But I know I'm better with you.
His friends, besides Bonzo, had all told him it was a lost cause and he might as well move on now. There was no way it would be accepted for a human and a zombie to be together, let alone even friends. He was only setting himself up for a heartache.
He hadn't listened.
He should have.
For the first while he and Addison had met up in secret, always in the zombie safe room. They had made it their spot as it was the first place they had met. They felt, as it said in it's name, safe there. He was always the first one there, and every time he would always worry if she would show up. He was waiting for the day where the other humans got the better of her.
But she always showed up, washing his worries away.
Until the day where she didn't.
Her cousin had forced her to choose, between him and her lifelong passion for cheerleading. He somehow wanted to hate her for not choosing him, but he couldn't bring himself to it. He knew how much it meant to her, and he didn't want to be the one taking it away from her.
Here comes to the heartache he thought sourly to himself. Even though his heart didn't actually work, he could imagine the pain and that was enough to make his smile drop.
The one human who had showed him kindness, had been taken away from him.
And yet she hadn't he would soon come to discover from the daily notes left in his locker.
Cheering for you on the inside.
XOX Addison.
Wherever you are, it's never as dark,
Whenever I start slipping, you make the difference.
Been there from the start, no matter how hard.
Whatever piece is missing,
you know how to fix it.
When he had turned full on zombie at the homecoming game, every single human had run away, seeing the monster they said he was. Addison hadn't. She had even run after him, she would have thrown herself in harms way to protect him. He could have sworn he felt his dead heart skip a beat.
And so it killed him having to tell her that they were all right. Maybe they shouldn't be together.
He wished she could see right past it, see that he didn't mean that at all, it was the furthest from the truth as it could be. He wanted nothing more than her. She had shouted, she had protested, she had even shown her true self to everyone. Just for him. Just so he could be accepted.
He wished he could tell her that he no longer cared about being accepted by anyone other than her as he got pushed into the van.
I was a wreck when you came along.
When there was nothing left,
you showed me the best.
Addison had never given up on him. She had run up to him the second she found out that he was back. She had encouraged them all to stand up for what they believed in. Their differences. He had, had a lot of time to think things over and he was 99.00% sure that he didn't care about what others might say as along as Addison was happy. If she didn't care, then he didn't either. When he saw her waiting for him, he was 100% sure. Even though he was saddened to come back to discover that all zombies had been sent back to zombie town, and was no longer allowed access in the school, he dared have a little amount of faith when Principal Lee had only called it temporarily.
When Bonzo and himself had been collection their belongings plus Eliza's, whom hadn't even bothered to turn up to do it herself, he wondered when he would be able to come back. They soon discovered why Eliza hadn't shown up, she was much more busy doing something she defiantly shouldn't be. As they raced against the clock to stop her, his mind was racing as well, whatever she was planning to ruin, was not going to make their situation any brighter.
I'm still a mess but you hold on.
Don't know just why you do,
but I know I'm better with you.
They had managed to stop Eliza, and in doing so Addison had also come to join them. Except to start with she was more on Eliza's side until Zed made them see. And together with them, and the rest of the cheerleading squad, even Bucky who had, had a change of heart, they had made everyone else see as well.
The crowd were cheering loudly and it wasn't only for the humans on the stage, it was for all of them. He felt extremely happy when he saw, and heard Addison's mom and dad cheering amongst the crowd, her dad even whooped for Zed. With Addison, her stubbornness and her amazing cheers, she had made him believe, and together they had made the rest believe with them. And they had also earned their happy ending.
Soon things really started to turn around for them. The wall was taken down that split Seabrook and Zombie town, and they were allowed back into the school, along with almost everywhere else in Seabrook. Sure you still had the few ones who remained hateful towards the zombies but there was supporters to drown them out. Zombies was finally accepted. History couldn't be erased or rewritten, but it could be forgiven and mended for the future and they had started the process of doing exactly that.
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"You okay?" Addison asked, sitting herself on his lap, smiling at him softly. "You've been quiet for some time now, not like you."
"Are you saying I talk too much?" he feigned a hurt look, wiping away an imaginary tear. "I'm hurt Addy."
"You know what I mean!" she slapped his shoulder as she laughed, her eyes shining with happiness. He smiled wide, he had never been happier than he was now.
"Do I now?" he whispered, his hand coming up to the back of her neck, pulling her down towards him.
"Yes you do." Addison replied before the gap closed between them, their lips meeting in a soft kiss.
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